Edwardianly

comparative more Edwardianly · superlative most Edwardianly

1. In an Edwardian manner.

   Jessie looks out from the photograph, full-length, quarter-profile, Edwardianly dressed, hands on hips, her hair a feral variation on Gibson Girl.

   1982, Meanjin, page 181

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   It was not as if I had knocked about a lot on my own, and was thoroughly emancipated and “independent”. On the contrary, I was Edwardianly dutiful, and still “minded” what was said to me. In those days children did not call their parents by their Christian names, and most children were—more or less—in awe of their fathers and mothers.

   1931, Gladys Cooper, Gladys Cooper, Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., page 62

   Grant and his son bore to the conference table the clothes they stood up in—in Bernard’s case a high four-button single-breasted which he fancied made him look Edwardianly severe—and one briefcase, Michael’s.

   1971, Derek Jewell, Come in Number One, Your Time Is Up, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 260